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Gearbox: The Wii U Will Get The Best-Looking Version Of Aliens: Colonial Marines Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is quite a powerhouse franchise in Japan. There have been no less than six games (selling millions of copies in Japan alone) and even a feature film. But back in 2009, Capcom and the Takarazuka Revue took the series into another medium with a musical based on this game series.
Japanese video-sharing site NicoNico Douga is well known for having its own unique net culture and memes. One of the most interesting of these is the “tekaki” style of video. “Tekaki”, literally meaning “hand-drawn”, refers to a type of video where a popular clip — usually an anime or video game opening — is altered to portray a different game or anime altogether. This is done by tracing the original source frame by frame, making the desired alterations, and then reanimating it.
Gyakuten Saiban — the movie based on Capcom’s visual novel series, Ace Attorney — was released in Japan to sold-out theatres this past weekend. Staying closer to the source material than any video game movie before it, does this film prove that games can successfully be adapted into movies or does it reiterate the idea that games and movies are fundamentally incompatible forms of art? (Hint: it’s the former.)
Capcom dropped a bomb today, announcing in Japan that Gyakuten Saiban 5 will be made. Known in the west as Ace Attorney, this is cause for joy among fans of the courtroom adventure series, but international release plans are unconfirmed.
Next February, Japanese movie theatres are going to lawyer up when the Phoenix Wright movie puts its legal smackdown on celluloid.
Porno Graffitti is a Japanese band — a Japanese band I don’t really care for. They’re OK! Nonetheless, the group is singing the flick’s theme, dubbed “2012 Spark”.
Level-5′s Professor Layton and Capcom’s Ace Attorney are joining forces for a puzzle lawyer game, complete with witches and big swords. It looks great.
Takashi Miike, known for making a lot of cool movies (and some crap ones, too), is directing a big screen version of Capcom’s lawyer game series Ace Attorney.
